Encyclopedia of new religious movements by Peter B Clarke(
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)24
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2004
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2011
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English
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851 WorldCat member
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New Religious Movements (NRMs) can involve vast numbers of followers and in many cases are radically changing the way people
understand and practice religion and spirituality. Moreover, many are having a profound impact on the form and content of
mainstream religion. The "Encyclopedia of New Religious Movements" provides uniquely global coverage of the phenomenon, with
entries on over three-hundred movements from almost every country in the world. The coverage includes movements that derive
from the major religions of the world and to neo-traditional movements, movements often overlooked in the study of NRMs. In
addition to the coverage of particular movements there are also entries on topics, themes, key thinkers and key ideas, for
example the New Age Movement, Neo-Paganism, New Religion and gender, NRMs and cyberspace, NRMs and the law, the Anti-Cult
Movement, Swedenborg, Jung, Teilhard de Chardin, Lovelock, Gurdjieff, al-Banna, Qutb. The marked global approach and comprehensiveness
of the encyclopedia enable an appreciation of the innovative energy of NRMs, of their extraordinary diversity, and the often
surprising ways in which they can propagate geographically.; The most ambitions publication of its sort, the "Encyclopedia
of New Religious Movements" is a major addition to the reference literature for students and researchers of the field in religious
studies and the social sciences. Entries are cross-referenced with short bibliographies for further reading. There is a full
index

The World's religions : understanding the living faiths(
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1993
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1994
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849 WorldCat member
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"This work 'examines the great living faiths of the world, including Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sikhism,
Shinto, and China's religious tradition. It tells how the major religions began and traces their develpment from their origins
to the present.'" Publisher's note

The Oxford handbook of the sociology of religion by Peter B Clarke(
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)29
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2008
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2011
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513 WorldCat member
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An expert team of international scholars here provide 51 essays as entry points into the sociological study and understanding
of religion as well as in-depth surveys into its changing forms and content in the contemporary world. Issues discussed range
from ecology to law, art to cognitive science, crime to health care

Education and society in Africa by Mark Bray(
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1985
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1986
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459 WorldCat member
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Religion defined and explained by Peter B Clarke(
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1992
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1998
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349 WorldCat member
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This book looks at the large-scale theories of religion characteristics of nineteenth- and twentieth-century approaches to
the study of religion. The philosophical assumptions behind the alleged need to produce a theory of religion are examined
in Part I. The aims and means of defining religion are treated as part of this examination. The discussion of method in the
theory of religion is then illustrated in detailed treatments of five major forms of large-scale theory of religion in Part
II: religious, philosophical, sociological, socioeconomic and psychological. Major thinkers in the theory of religion such
as Marx, Freud, Durkheim, Hegel and Feuerbach are discussed. The book aims to reveal the difficulties in demonstrating the
necessity and validity of any large-scale theory of religion. It argues for less extensive aims for the study of religion,
contending in particular that religion should be defined in family-resemblance terms, and explained piecemeal and through
historical forms of understanding

New religions in global perspective : a study of religious change in the modern world by Peter B Clarke(
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2004
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2006
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331 WorldCat member
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"New Religions in Global Perspective is an in-depth account of new religious movements, and of new forms of spirituality from
a global vantage point. Ranging from North America and Europe to Japan, Latin America, South Asia, Africa and the Caribbean,
this book provides students with a complete introduction to NRMs such as Falun Gong, Aum Shinrikyo, the Brahma Kumaris movement,
the Ikhwan or Muslim Brotherhood, Sufism, the Engaged Buddhist and Neo-Hindu movements, Messianic Judaism, and African diaspora
a movements including Rastafarianism." "Peter Clarke explores the innovative character of new religious movements, charting
their cultural significance and global impact, and how various religious traditions are shaping, rather than displacing, each
other's understanding of notions such as transcendence and faith, good and evil, of the meaning, purpose and function of religion,
and of religious belonging. In addition to exploring the responses of governments, churches, the media and general public
to new religious movements, Clarke examines the reactions to older, increasingly influential religions, such as Buddhism and
Islam, in new geographical and cultural contexts. Taking into account the degree of continuity between old and new religions,
each chapter contains not only an account of the rise of the NRMs and new forms of spirituality in a particular region, but
also an overview of change in the regions' mainstream religions."--Jacket

West Africa and Christianity by Peter B Clarke(
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)10
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1985
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1986
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304 WorldCat member
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Japanese new religions in the West by Peter B Clarke(
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1994
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2015
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English and Undetermined
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302 WorldCat member
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"Japan's new and 'new, new' religious movements which have established themselves in the West are both expanding and in general
highly active. Among the best known are Soka Gakkai International, Mahikari, Seicho no Ie, the MOA Foundation, Tenrikyo and
Risshokoseikai."--BOOK JACKET. "Though invariably deriving their inspiration from traditional sources, as a group they share
distinct characteristics: they all stress the importance of pacifism, environmental care and protection and world transformation.
They also all claim to heal, that all followers will receive benefits in this life and that, in most cases, Japan is the promised
land."--BOOK JACKET. "This volume, which also offers a valuable insight into some of the cultural values of contemporary Japan,
is the first to address the subject in any detail, and includes contributions from a number of distinguished scholars from
Europe and the United States."--BOOK JACKET

Japanese new religions : in global perspective by Peter B Clarke(
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)13
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1999
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2015
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246 WorldCat member
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Since the 1960s virtually every part of the world has seen the arrival and establishment of Japanese new religious movements,
a process that has followed quickly on the heels of the most active period of Japanese economic expansion overseas. This book
examines the nature and extent of this religious expansion outside Japan